Hamipterus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Hamipterus lived during the Early Cretaceous and resided in Asia. The first Hamipterus fossil was discovered in 2014.
Quick facts about Hamipterus:
- Existed from Lower Cretaceous Epoch to 100.5 million years ago
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- Only one specimen has been found by paleontologists
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Hamipterus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner, and S. Jiang, Q. Wang, Y. Ma, Y. Paidoula, X. Cheng, T. Rodrigues, X. Meng, J. Zhang, N. Li, Z. Zhou. 2014. Sexually dimorphic tridimensionally preserved pterosaurs and their eggs from China. Current Biology 24:1323-1330
- X. Wang, K. L. N. Bandeira, and R. Qiu, S. Jiang, X. Cheng, Y. Ma, A. W. A. Kellner. 2021. The first dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna, China. Scientific Reports 11:14962:1-17
